Mantra Partners with Elliptic, Providing Access to 500+ Financial Institutions

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Key Takeaways:

• MANTRA collaborates with Elliptic to improve financial compliance and security of its ecosystem.
• This partnership provides MANTRA with access to over 500 major financial institutions.
• This integration strengthens the posture of MANTRA in the RWA tokenization and DeFi space.

Introduction: Bridging Traditional Finance with Blockchain Compliance

MANTRA, a Layer 1 blockchain focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi), is paving the way for mainstream adoption with its integration with Elliptic, a leader in blockchain analytics and financial compliance. This move indicates a deeper understanding of regulatory needs, a fundamental factor for the sustainability of blockchain initiatives in the evolving fintech landscape.

Now MANTRA aims to bridge the gap between the fiat economy and the blockchain economy. Its ecosystem offers staking, lending, and cross-chain interoperability solutions. The MANTRA (OM) token underpins all of this, allowing users to take part in the DeFi activities and governance. The project sees itself as the preferred ledger of record for tokenized real-world assets spanning multiple industries and asset classes.

Elliptic also provides banks, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies with monitoring, investigation and risk management solutions. Their technology acts as a watchful eye for preventing money laundering, fraud, and other unethical behaviors on the blockchain. Coinbase, Revolut, and others are depending on Elliptic to build a security-first cryptocurrency trading ecosystem.

MANTRA Integrates into a Global Financial Network

MANTRA’s integration with Elliptic effectively positions it within the established global financial network. The relationship provides 500+ leading financial institutions access to the MANTRA blockchain via Elliptic’s products suite. This allows these institutions to further investigate the ability and possibly use the MANTRA protocol for RWA tokenization and DeFi applications knowing they will have real-time transaction monitoring and risk assessment.

In the past, financial institutions may have been quite reluctant to engage with a platform like MANTRA, due to concerns surrounding regulatory compliance and illicit activity. These concerns are lessened by the established reputation and comprehensive suite of compliance tools offered by Elliptic. Now, banks, asset managers and other financial players can interact with MANTRA with the confidence that transactions are being watched for suspicious activity, and that the platform is complying with industry best practices for AML and KYC.

The partnership does more than just provide access; it has far-reaching implications. This collaboration opens new vistas of financial products and services based on the MANTRA blockchain. For example, a traditional asset manager might tokenize a real estate asset on MANTRA and then use a DeFi platform to offer fractional ownership of that asset to investors. Elliptic’s tools for monitoring the blockchain would supply the process oversight to track compliance, and protect investors. It opens up a new realm of opportunities for improved capital liquidity, accessibility, and pioneering financial products that merge the conventional finance industry with the digital asset landscape. Elliptic has collaborated with multiple blockchain projects, and MANTRA is the latest addition to its partner network, according to a press release.

How MANTRA Benefits from the Elliptic Partnership

This integration brings various benefits for both MANTRA and its users.

• Improved Compliance and Security: MANTRA now has access to Elliptic’s specialized analytics and monitoring solutions such as Elliptic Lens (for wallet analysis), Elliptic Navigator (for transaction monitoring), Elliptic Investigator (for deep analysis), and Elliptic Discovery (for ecosystem insights). These instruments are used to ensure compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations for transactions.
• Broader Institutional Adoption: Supporting over 500 financial institutions’ access (through Elliptic) to MANTRA greatly broadens the potential reach of the blockchain. MANTRA can now be used with greater confidence to support these businesses with secure and legally compliant RWA tokenization.
• Minimizing Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities: Transaction closures across varying chains of provenance are a commonly recognized vulnerable point to attack and exploit for money laundering in crypto platforms. By integrating with Elliptic, MANTRA is able to monitor these transactions, reducing risk and increasing transparency.

Industry Leaders Weigh In

Industry response to the MANTRA-Elliptic partnership has been overwhelmingly positive. It bolsters market confidence in regulatory-compliant blockchains as governments across the globe crack down on cryptocurrency. According to Sebastian Heine, Chief Compliance Officer at MANTRA, Elliptic’s capabilities and blockchain analytics play a crucial role as the team works compliantly towards ‘bringing the world’s financial ecosystem on-chain’ by transitioning real-world assets to this ledger of record.

VP of Engineering at Elliptic, Lukasz Kujawa, explained that the inclusion of MANTRA will allow Elliptic to scale cross-chain intelligence and give customers a holistic view of their risks.

The OM community is extremely excited for the news as the partnership was announced along with token burn that will be taking place in early April of 2025. Their latest token burn totaled $132 million, reducing the circulating supply and showing faith in the project’s long-term value.